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Customizing tmux

Customizing tmux - Linux Tutorial

From the course: Linux Tips

Customizing tmux

- [Instructor] tmux is a great utility for maintaining a persistent session. And if you use it frequently, you can customize it to make it work even better for you. As with most Linux tools, we can create a file in the home folder with customizations that are applied when a user runs a program. For tmux, this file is called .tmux.conf and it's composed of tmux command line options. Before we create that file, let's explore the command line a little bit. We can get there in a tmux session by pressing control + B and then colon. Here we can use the command set and an option name to change various characteristics of the tmux session. You can find out what options are currently set with the show-options command with dash g for the global settings. I'll scroll down a little bit here and find status-style. This defines the appearance of the status bar at the bottom of the screen. Let's change that to something else. I'll open up the command line with control + B colon and write set -g…

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